If you’re not scared for The Torontonians SummerWorks Dare Night Lockdown performance art/sleepover event, this video should help.

Follow us here to see what The Torontonian’s have been up to. And make sure that you come by tomorrow, Aug. 10 7:00pm – Aug. 11 10:00am to join them in the Ballroom for the most frightening, eerie event of your summer.

Highlights of the Night:
Pizza Dinner: Scary Pizza Dinner where the PIZZA EATS YOU!
Ghost Stories: Not your regular campfire ghost stories. Bleeding ones.
Double Dog Scary Dares: You know the drill. Pick a dare out of a bleeding hat and do it.. if you dare.
The Astral Project: A sleep-along-seminar that will teach you how to have an out-of-body experience. We will leave our bodies and, if all goes well, travel to North Korea and, if not, Rob Ford’s shower.
Mourning Wiener Feast: Just like it sounds.

Recently we’ve been filming promo videos for our event, Dare Nite: Lockdown Edition. The day before that, we spent some of our time in the office sketching out storyboards for the scenes we’d like to film.

Right on the spot I knew exactly how I wanted mine to be done. I spent hours scribbling in my little sketch book, shading in the little boxes and making sure I got each expression down to the last detail. I got so caught up in making my storyboards look “perfect” I almost forgot we had to actually film them!

A couple of my storyboards:

There were a couple members who sat at the table completely blank and even frustrated. Eventually, we all helped and brainstormed situations and scenes that could further stretch their storyboards. After discussing the episodes we created, Darren took us outside for some fresh air and to scout for settings to have them filmed. I honestly couldn’t wait for the next day when we would start filming.

One of most important things that make an event successful is how well it is advertised to the public and the amount of positive feedback you receive. Creating these short clips and putting them out there will hopefully bring more attraction to our event. Please stay tuned for our promo vids! Oh, and if you’re reading this right now, YOU GOTTA COME! Or do you not have the “gongdoh” to make it through the whole night?

This is Ahash reporting from the Mammalian Diving Reflex’s temporary office at the Gladstone. I’m here to tell you about some of the activities that are taking place at the office. So far, as part of the Producers of Parkdale program, we’ve been doing a lot of workshops with people like Julian Sleath and Harold Mah from the City of Toronto’s Culture department and Sarah Roboyo-Sheridan, curator of Nuit Blanche and Director of Mercer Union Gallery.

The workshops came in handy for our own event, DARE NITE LOCKDOWN, happening August 10-11, 2012, which we are organizing here at the Gladstone. The event is part of Summerworks 2012 program. As of now, the ideas and themes of our event DARE NITE LOCKDOWN are coming together into a wonderful yet a horribly creepy event to produce an event completely different from anything else in the Gladstone.

Double Dog Scary Dares: You know the drill. Pick a dare out of a bleeding hat and do it.. if you dare.

The Astral Project: A sleep-along-seminar that will teach you how to have an out-of-body experience. We will leave our bodies and, if all goes well, travel to North Korea and, if not, Rob Ford’s shower.

Mourning Weiner Feast: Just like it sounds.

Our team is made up of nine teenagers: Dana Liu, Ahash Jeeva, Tenzin Chozin, Sanjay Ratnan, Isabel Ahat, Virginia Antonipillai, Nerupa Somasale, Kathy Vuu, Ngawang, Kiam Lam-Bellissimo, Tenzin Chosang, and a few adults. But it is mostly us (teenagers) who are doing the work. Well, kind of.

Find out more about The Torontonians, Mammalian Diving Reflex or the Parkdale Producers check out their blog or follow us here for the latest coverage.

As we launch into August, our favourite teenagers-in-residency, The Torontonians, are preparing their biggest, scariest event event yet– Dare Night Lockdown:Sleepover with One Eye Open.

Constantly breaking barriers between adults and teenagers through their various arts and events like Nightwalks with Teenagers, How to Be Brown teen and our ongoing Dare Nites, The Torontonians are a cool bunch. So cool in fact, that they are going to make some guest posts here on our blog to get us all feared up for the Lock Down.

Follow us here to see what The Torontonian’s are up to. And make sure that you come by Aug. 10 7:00pm- Aug. 11 10:00am and join them in the Ballroom for the most frightening, eerie event of your summer.